VICTORIA - There was no political
interference in the BC government’s decision to pay $6.4M in legal bills
for disgraced former ministerial aides Dave Basi and Bobby Virk,
according to a new report by the province’s auditor general. (CTV)

VICTORIA - 2 years after a pair of former BC ministerial aides pleaded
guilty to leaking government secrets, the province's auditor general
says he's still in the dark about a controversial $6M legal payout in
the BC Rail saga. (CP) MORE: BC concedes it has detailed bills

VICTORIA - The BC government
will go after legal costs incurred by government workers found guilty in
court, but that doesn't mean taxpayers are completely off the hook for
costs such as the $6M paid to convicted former BC government aides David
Basi and Bobby Virk. (CTV)

VICTORIA - The salaries that BC Rail pays its senior bosses continue to
astound. Yesterday's column
discussed the $570,000 shelled out to president Kevin Mahoney last year,
to run a railway that's a piddling 39 kilometres long. The short line
from Roberts Bank to Surrey is all that's left under BC Rail's direct
control following the sale-lease of the main line to CN in 2004.

The $1 billion privatization of B.C. Rail
will be the explosive core of the upcoming April 2 trial of former
provincial BC Liberal ministerial aides David Basi and Bob Virk on
fraud and breach of trust charges. (Tyee)